Abstract
At the begining of the 19th century, the landscape as the intersection of nature and man became a seminal theme in the visual arts. The depiction of nature served as a projection of aesthetic, philosophical and ideological concerns and as a metaphor on the interrelationship between man and the natural world.
Landscape photography emerged as a specific genre shortly after photography was invented and began to be used in a practical way and adopted the basic approaches to landscape representation as they were gradually constituted in the field of landscape painting. Owing to photography, landscape painting in the late 19th century became radically emancipated from the dictates of descriptiveness and topographical restraint, and began to seek a new visual artistic language.
The publication, acompanying the exhibition of the same name, examines the demarcation of the two art forms by confrontation of the most important czech photographer's and painter's works.